Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

To:A. I. RYKOV AND A. D. TSYURUPA

Published:First published in 1945 inLenin Miscellany XXXV.

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26.IV.1922Top secret

Comrades Rykov and Tsyurupa

Iam sending you Varga’s German letter.

Iam sure that we havea great manyscandalous things
of this kind.

Vargais apparently right (I have written to him to say
that in future he must let me know his informant’s name).
Please appoint (through Krestinsky? or otherwise) astrictinquiry at Berlin tocatchthe guilty persons at this B.F.S.T.
and then to reorganise itradically.

Makesure that YevgenyVargais on the commission for
inquiry and
restructuring.[1]

V.Ulyanov(Lenin)Chairman, C.P.C.

[1]Onthe commission to examine the activity of the B.F.S.T. (Bureau    
for Foreign Science and Technology) were Y. B. Pashukanis,           
Y. S. Varga (representing the embassy), V. N. Ipatiev,M. Y. Lapirov-Skoblo, B. E. Stuynkel (representing the S.E.C.)     
and V. V. Starkov (representing the foreign trade mission).

Inits conclusion, the commission described the state of the    
B.F.S.T., making a number of criticisms, and came out in        
favour of retaining it but on a much smaller scale.